Key Points - On Sunday, April 7, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce (E&C) Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) struck a deal on a comprehensive federal bill, the...more
Key Points -
Three of the four bipartisan leaders of the House and Senate committees with jurisdiction over data privacy have struck a deal on a comprehensive federal bill, the American Data Privacy and Protection Act,...more
On Thursday, September 17, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS) and other Committee Republicans introduced a finalized version of their long-awaited data privacy legislation, which was first unveiled as a...more
9/22/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Processors ,
Data Transfers ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Prior Express Consent ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action ,
Proposed Legislation
On Thursday, May 14, House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Anna Eshoo (D-CA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce (CPC) Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) introduced a bicameral counter-proposal to the...more
5/15/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contact Tracing ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Covered Entities ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Electronic Protected Health Information (ePHI) ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Health Emergency
Republican members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee formally introduced legislation on May 7, 2020, to give Americans more control over and insight into how their personal health, proximity and...more
5/12/2020
/ Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Contact Tracing ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Employee Privacy Rights ,
Geological Data ,
Opt-Outs ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Public Health Emergency
In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy partner Ed Pagano and senior policy advisor Galen Roehl discuss privacy legislation being considered in the U.S. Congress....more
1/9/2020
/ Connected Items ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Data Subjects Rights ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Internet of Things ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Preemption ,
Privacy Laws ,
Privacy Legislation ,
Private Right of Action ,
Proposed Legislation ,
Smart Devices
On Tuesday, November 26, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, introduced the Consumer Online Privacy Rights Act. The bill notably contains a private right...more
Key Points -
- The Online Privacy Act was introduced in the House of Representatives. If passed, it would establish individual privacy rights related to personal information.
- The Filter Bubble Transparency Act was...more
11/8/2019
/ Covered Entities ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
New Legislation ,
Online Platforms ,
Personal Data ,
Personal Information ,
Privacy Laws
• On October 17, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) introduced legislation to establish baseline privacy and cybersecurity protections and issue fines to companies and criminal penalties to senior executives.
• The New Democrat...more
10/23/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Criminal Penalties ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Fines ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Opt-In ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
Privacy Laws ,
Proposed Legislation
• The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. The window of opportunity to pass federal privacy legislation to preempt the CCPA in the 116th Congress is rapidly closing.
• Discussions are...more
9/26/2019
/ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Privacy Rights ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Legislative Agendas ,
Preemption ,
Privacy Laws ,
Private Right of Action